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In 1904, Santos-Dumont shipped his new airship No. 7 ( also called Racer ), from Paris to St. Louis to fly at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to compete for the Grand Prize of $ 100, 000 which was to be given to a flying machine ( of any sort ) that could make three round-trip flights over a 24 km ( 15 mile ) “ L ”- shaped course at an overall average speed of 32 kph ( 20 mph ), later reduced to 24 kph ( 15 mph ).
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1904 and Santos-Dumont
The Wrights used a launching rail for their 1903 flights and a launch catapult for their 1904 and 1905 machines, while the aircraft of Santos-Dumont and other Europeans had wheeled undercarriages.
1904 and shipped
On December 8, 1904, the Italian crypt was shipped, in sixteen crates from Italy.
Water from these wells and springs was bottled and shipped by tank car to the 1904 World Fair in St. Louis.
Railroad linkage was established in 1904, and shortly thereafter the first tank car of oil was shipped out of Humble's oil field.
First appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed by the tea and coffee shop merchant Thomas Sullivan from New York, who shipped his tea bags around the world.
* 1904: Bodies of the first fleet of 26 tramcars were built in the UK They were then shipped in pieces to and assembled in Hung Hom.
The first ore was shipped to the Crofton Smelter on Vancouver Island in 1904, and the mine achieved full production in 1905.
Colt Bisley Model. 38-40 WCF, shipped 1904 to Copper Queen Cons.
1904 and new
After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.
In fact from 1904 Kraepelin changed the section heading to ' The born criminal ', moving it from under ' Congenital feeblemindedness ' to a new chapter on ' Psychopathic personalities '.
From 1904, however, he instead termed those ' original disease conditions ', and introduced the new alternative category of psychopathic personalities.
In 1966 Erhard lost support and Kurt Kiesinger ( 1904 – 1988 ) was elected as Chancellor by a new CDU / CSU-SPD alliance combining the two largest parties.
In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.
* The Great Companion ( 1904 ; new edition published September 1906 )
Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".
In 1904 the vernal equinox was on a 21st and it was the day after Aleister Crowley ended his Horus Invocation that brought on the new Æon and Thelemic New Year.
Next door, the Herrenhaus, or Prussian House of Lords ( the Upper House of the Prussian State Parliament ), occupied a former porcelain factory for a while, before moving to an impressive new building erected on the site of the former Mendelssohn family home in 1899 – 1904 by Friedrich Schulze Colditz ( 1843 – 1912 ).
His son, the wine wholesale dealer William (“ Willy ”) Huth ( 1877 – 1967 ), took over the business in 1904 and, a few years later, commissioned the replacement of the building by a new one on the same site.
The Giants under McGraw famously snubbed their first modern World Series chance in 1904 — an encounter with the reigning world champion Boston Americans ( now known as the " Red Sox ")— because McGraw considered the new American League as little more than a minor league.
He came to believe himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Æon of Horus, based upon a spiritual experience that he and his wife, Rose Edith, had in Egypt in 1904.
Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.
Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting ( 1842 – 1919 ), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition.
In 1904, Charles Rolls established a new car making business with Henry Royce, but in 1910 he was killed in an aeroplane crash at the age of 32 ; he is commemorated by a statue in Agincourt Square.
Masqueray resigned shortly after the Fair opened in 1904, having been invited by Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minnesota to design a new cathedral for the city.
The decathlon was a relatively new event in modern athletics, although it had been part of American track meets since the 1880s and a version had been featured on the program of the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
A new edition of the Novellen was published by A. Vögtlin in twelve volumes ( 1904 ).
However, delays followed due to financial difficulties, arguments regarding the location, the death of Tamburini in 1891, the murder of Meano in 1904 and the death of Angelo Ferrari, an Italian businessman who was the financing the new theatre.
The 1904 passage of the Kinkaid Act, which allowed homesteaders to claim brought a new wave of settlers ; however, even these larger tracts were often insufficient to support a family, and many of the Kinkaid claims were eventually sold to established cattle ranchers.
A station was opened in Ruislip in 1904 and the parish council created a new urban district to address the forthcoming population growth.
The name comes from a 1904 plan by the Jesuits of Santa Clara University to build a new university named for their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, in the area.
On New Year's Eve 1904, he had pyrotechnists illuminate his new building at One Times Square with a fireworks show from street level.
The new townsite was platted in 1904, but not incorporated until January 2, 1924.
In 1904, Alfred Erickson constructed a new home and the old log home became at various time a granary, garage and playhouse.
1904 and airship
* 1904: At the St. Louis World's Fair, a prize is offered for a successful attempt to drive a 0. 1 horsepower ( 75 W ) airship motor by energy transmitted through space at a distance of at least.
1904 and No
No more than twelve months passed before the British and Irish team ventured to Australia and New Zealand in 1904.
Initially, they developed and introduced the No. 8 box of eight assorted colors ( this famous box is usually depicted on most historical material associated with Crayola ; it was even featured on a postage stamp ) in early 1905 using the side of the medal depicting an Eagle but quickly changed to the other side showing the 1904 date their medal was won.
Adolphe Paul Oppé published an influential article in 1904, which made three crucial claims: No chasm or vapor ever existed ; no natural gas could create prophetic visions ; and the recorded incidents of a priestess undergoing violent and often deadly reactions was inconsistent with the more customary reports.
From Edison Films Catalogue, No. 200, Jan. 1904: " This sensational and highly tragic subject will certainly make a decided ` hit ' whenever shown.
Rubens Crayola No. 500 crayon box, circa 1904 to 1914
9 No. 4 ( July 1904 ) pp. 649 – 669
The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische (" Tragic "), was composed between 1903 and 1904 ( rev.
She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism.
A numbered series of cruisers began with Newark ( Cruiser No. 1 ), although Charleston ( Cruiser No. 2 ) was the first to be launched, in July 1888, and ending with another Charleston, Cruiser No. 22, launched in 1904.
45, No. 731, 1 January 1904, pp. 20 – 24
No. 48, Dec. 1904, pp. 753 – 754 )
Based on Article 5 of the Constitution 1904, which says it believes the law allows political divisions with special or for reasons of administrative convenience or public service, legislation on indigenous territories in Panama began to be defined with the establishment of the Guna District of San Blas, in 1938, including areas of the provinces of Panama and Columbus, then, defining its boundaries and administration by Act No. 16 of 1953.
No eggs were made for 1904 and 1905 because of the Russo-Japanese War.
* 1904 No eggs made
The campaigning journalist William Thomas Stead lived at No. 5 from 1904 until his death on board the Titanic in 1912.
In August 1904 ( different sources disagree on the date ), the Union Pacific Railroad sold Locomotive No. 737 and a few similar 4-4-0s to either Charles Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company or the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, both of them components of the Southern Pacific System.
Locomotive No. 737 and some of her sisters migrated southward about 1904 to the Texas and Louisiana lines of the Southern Pacific System, such as the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company.
Reorganized on April 28, 1904 under Act No. 1135 of the Philippine Commission, the municipalities of Bongabon and Pola were annexed to Pinamalayan as barrios.
The second set of recording, by Clark Wissler in 1903 and 1904 contains 146 cylinders, part of his larger studies and the third, by J. K. Dixon of the Wanamaker Expedition No. 2 in 1909, includes several songs sung mostly by Chief Bull at the Crow Agency.
21, No. 1, pp. 57-59, Oct. 1904
* Prélude, Op. 61, No. 1 ( Copenhagen, 1904 )
" From Gurlyand's Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No. 28, 11 July, p. 521.
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